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Action

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Best Quotes about Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Action is character.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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